"The Day We Got Tennessee-Tombigbee"

Lawmakers and military leaders pose to celebrate the day Congress approved plans for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in 1946. Standing, from left: Alabama Rep. Frank Boykin, Lt. Gen. Eugene Reybold, Maj. Gen. Robert W. Crawford, Brig. Gen. James A. Mollison, Mississippi Rep. John Elliott Rankin, and seated, Texas Rep. Joseph Jefferson Mansfield.

Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History